joseph buchheit



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BUCHHEIT, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,915, dated June 24,1890.

Application filed September 9,1889. Serial No. 323,361. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BUOHHEIT, a citi zen of the United States,residing in Brooklyn,in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented an Improved Game, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a game played with blocks or stones, somewhatafter the manner of the game of dominos.

The invention will be plain from the following description andaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view showing thenumbered blocks fitted into a holding frame or box; and Fig. 2, a likeview showing some of the blocks colored differently from others, so asto present an ornamental design when the blocks have been fitted intoplace.

A represents the box for the blocks, and in playing the game the blocksmay be laid therein, if desired. I have in this instance shownseventy-two blocks, numbered from 1 to 72, inclusive. Half of them areshown rectangular and the remainder pentagonal.

In playing the game the blocks are placed upon the table, numbers down,and shuflied.

Each player then takes a certain number of blocks, leaving some on thetable or in the pot. The player holding block No. 1 places it inposition, as in Fig. 1. Then the next player, if he has block No. 2,places it down; but if he has it not he must draw one block from thepot, and should he draw No. 2 he places it in position; but if he doesnot draw 2 he must pass. The next player then plays if he has block 2,and if not he must draw in same manner as first player, and so on. hen

the pot is exhausted, the player not having the proper block to playmust draw one, either from the player on his right or left, as may beagreed. The winners of the game are those who first get rid of theirblocks, and the final loser is the one who places the lastor-seventysecond block.

The blocks when laid present an ornamental design, as seen in Fig. 1. Toenhance the effect of the design and produce other designs, the sides ofthe blocks may be colored differently.

It will be observed that each pentangular block is equal to one squareblock and onefourth of a square block, the one-fourth area of a squarebeing the point formed by the two inclined sides. By thus shaping theblocks four of the pent-angular blocks, when placed together, form asymmetrical cross, as seen clearly in the drawings, the four pointedends forming the central square.

I claim as my invention- The combination, substantially as set forth, ofthe rectangular blocks and the pentangular blocks, whose pointed endsform one-fourth the area of one of the square blocks, the pentangularblocks being differently colored from the square blocks, for the purposedescribed, and all the blocks being consecutively numbered or marked toindicate the order in which they are to be played.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub-

